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Chapter 7. Converting Files

With JetStream Roamer you can open a wide variety of native CAD file types without having to have the

CAD application on your machine. Files read by JetStream include .dwg, .dgn, .dxf and Inventor. For a full

list of CAD files that JetStream can open, please refer to the web site www.navisworks.com

[http://www.navisworks.com]. This site will also explain which entities are read by JetStream and which

are ignored, as well as any object property information that is converted. It is possible to load multiple files

of different formats into the same scene in JetStream and set their units and origins appropriately. There

are also a number of options to help optimize native CAD file reading.

In addition to these native CAD files, JetStream Roamer also reads its own native .nwc (NavisWorks

Cache), .nwf (NavisWorks File review) and .nwd (published NavisWorks Data) file formats.

Some file formats, such as those from Autodesk's Viz and Graphisoft's ArchiCAD cannot be read directly

by JetStream Roamer but there are exporters available to export to the NavisWorks .nwc file format from

these applications. See Section 7.2, “ File Exporters ” for more details.

7.1. File Readers

As well as the NavisWorks file formats, .nwf, .nwd and .nwc, Roamer can open a variety of native CAD

and scanning applications' formats:

• .dwg

• Bentley AutoPLANT .dwg, .mdb

• .dxf

• .dwf

• .3ds

• .dgn

• .man

• .iges

• .step

• Inventor parts & assemblies

• VRML world files (.wrl;.wrz)

• Riegl Scan data (.3dd)

• Faro Scan data (.fls, .flw, .iQscan;.iQmod;.iQwsp)

• Leica Scan data (.pts;.ptx)

• Z+F Scan data (.zfc;.zfs)

• ASCII Laser Scan data (.asc;.txt)

• STL Stereolithography data (.stl)